somishere
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Comment · 1 year ago
Mainly just questioning in which direction the poisoned chalice is being passed
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the comments and down votes are fairly self evident here, despite what I may or may not have meant. Discrimination is a fairly well defined term.
Another hot take - the healthiest communities are those that people self-identity into. Like HN ;)
Comment · 1 year ago
Couldn't agree more. I'm using it for notifications, where icon colour changes depending on the type of notification (colours are also user editable) ... and the notifications can be disabled :)
Comment · 1 year ago
Lanier Graham is my pick of the bunch. Finally a set that doesn't require a lathe or a chisel!
Comment · 1 year ago
I use animated SVG favicons in a Firefox extension I've been building. They actually work a treat
Comment · 1 year ago
As an aside we went to see the new David Attenborough film Ocean over the weekend. Equal parts stunning and heartbreaking - it sews a compelling narrative for the oceans, spread between climate and ocean ecology, the extent of our exploitation, and the renewed hope (if you could call it that) that it holds for humanity's survival ...
A hard watch but also a must see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZAdCtKT_g
Comment · 1 year ago
Two notes:
- is there a sly dig in there at Meta? Ice cream melting ... blue-suited hand
- the Ghibli style feels controversial
Comment · 1 year ago
It's their movement that I find fascinating. It's like they just snap between positions [1]. They're incredibly fast.
Not to mention exceptionally beautiful (often irridescent [2]) and entirely curious.
I have thousands of happy snaps like those from around our old gaf of different pals that caught my eye or walked a web over one of us. So cool.
[1] https://i.imgur.com/kVK8z2p.mp4 [2] https://i.imgur.com/Ig3Nob5.jpeg
Comment · 1 year ago
I can count on one hand the number of times I've needed something like this in the last decade. But I'd also need to count the same number of times I've implemented a less than ideal solution that's ended up in prod. Great work!
Comment · 1 year ago
Also doesn't really work when e.g. flex items are set to wrap
Comment · 1 year ago
The Marshall Islands tests were carried out after the end of WWII.
It's worth considering that the US also used the islands as a dumping ground for waste from previous tests in the US [1] ... At a site which is now under threat of leaking due to the effects of climate change [2]
[1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-te...
Comment · 1 year ago
My wife is currently in the Marshall Islands commemorating an anniversary related to the nuclear testing. The trauma and fallout, cultural and nuclear, persists to this day - over 7 decades (and how many generations?) since the Bravo test.
I've heard and read a lot about the atrocities visited upon the Marshallese in the name of research in the last six months. Including around the potential "intentionality" of the human testing [1]. It is harrowing. And a hard pill to swallow in any context. The Nolan film did the islands little justice.
As an aside: while indirect, the journey to the Marshalls isn't as onorous as the article suggests - yes there's an island hopper, but United also fly direct from Honolulu. Though getting to Bikini is likely another adventure in itself.
Comment · 1 year ago
Inchconnachan is one of the more interesting desert islands I came across while living in Scotland. My introduction to its local inhabitants, expat Antipodeans like myself, was wildly unexpected.
Comment · 1 year ago
Cannot wait. That said, somehow I don't think it will help us with a UK-based API provider we work with that provide us with ISO-encoded UTC time strings that are actually BST during northern hemisphere summer (or localised strings, e.g. +6 where the datetime component is actually UTC).
meet.hn/city/-16.9206657,145.7721854/Cairns